@hyperplanes maybe the humans who control it just don’t mind that.
which do you fear more? AI that breaks free from human control, or what (some) humans will do with control over AI?
it feels like a kind of violation of the social contract, that we get human-extinction-threatening AI before we even get robots capable of keeping public restrooms sparking and clean.
i used to think prompt engineer was basically an oxymoron.
dork diss of the day:
“you were epiphenomenal!”
the humans often confuse hypotheses for observations.
[new draft post] State as coordination https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/31/state-as-coordination/index.html
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @merz @DeanBaker13 @jgordon Matt Stoller, in his Big newsletter (very much worth reading!) solicits stories about off-beat monopolies, and he often investigates and publishes them to his extremely Washington-plugged-in audience. Obscure-to-the-general-public abuse by consolidated players in science supply chains would be 100% up his alley, and might even move some needle that matters. https://mattstoller.substack.com/
@MBridegam no! just unsubscribing one at a time. org-wide opt-outs would be convenient!
The social prerequisite for technological dynamism is a universalist welfare state that reduces the coupling between fluctuating labor income and human thriving.
See #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/03/31/what-to-do-about-ai-driven-job-displacement/
i find i am unsubscribing from all the political-figure mailing lists my #ActBlue-ing over the years has put me on.
i'm not sure whether this is the right thing or the wrong thing to do. it is an act of sheer #revulsion.
instead of trying to throw a constraint into somebody’s optimization problem, is there any way you can shift what they are trying to optimize?
@lori to prove the iron law of oligarchy wrong, we must develop less oligarchical means of political coordination. i think this is a domain where technology reay can make a difference. ( e.g. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html )
plutocracy is just not consistent with rule of law.
plutocrats have the resources to hijack the state or undermine the legitimacy of state action. our current politics is unstable because plutocracy is illegitimate (because duh) while state action to counter plutocracy is made illegitimate by the work of the plutocrats.
so there is no way forward.
they are gaslighting you into imagining you are gaslit.
"when [NewCollege] hired its first dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2022, it wasn’t surrendering to the woke left. It was responding to an explicit mandate from a DeSantis appointee... a banker appointed by DeSantis led an aggressive top-down push for sweeping new DEI initiatives in all of Florida’s public colleges, compelling every campus, including New College, to put more emphasis on DEI." #ConorFriedersdorf https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/new-college-florida-ron-desantis-takeover/673556/ ht @grantimatter
direct from the trenches of US-19 i am here to report that Palm Harbor Florida remains calm.
the US feels a bit retro today, like a much anticipated mash-up of Law and Order and the Jerry Springer Show.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @DeanBaker13 @merz @jgordon pharma is obviously structured in ways that reward predation and extract rents. we can try to address that directly. of course it is also a symptom of America’s general inequities and pathologies. there would be much less incentive to predation, and reform would be easier to arrange, if high incomes were taxed again at 90% in the US. 1/
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @DeanBaker13 @merz @jgordon but like with every other problem, while we fight their deep roots we still have to pull up the weeds.
in no domain are we content to say, “well the real root of this corruption is overall stratification and the desperate treadmill a price-rationed caste system provokes which causes people to justify any harm if they can earn a buck. so we’ll just have to endure until after the revolution.” /fin